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Texts library: Vastu
A catalogue of the classical texts behind the Vedic sciences: what each one covers, how it is arranged, and the editions and translations to read it in.
Mayamata
मयमत
A South Indian treatise on architecture and iconography covering site selection, soil testing, orientation by gnomon, the square site-grid (vastupurusha mandala), village and town plans, temples, houses and images. It is one of the most systematic surviving Vastu texts.
- Author
- Attributed to Maya
- Period
- Roughly 9th–12th century CE, South India (dating debated)
- Tradition
- Vastu